The following story is courtesy of Boston.com:

Word that PAUL STANLEY is coming to Boston next month to show some of his paintings got us wondering what the KISS frontman could possibly know about art. So yesterday we called Gene Simmons's sidekick, and tracked him down tooling around LA in his black Mercedes sports car. Stanley, who'll be at the Wentworth Gallery in the Mall at Chestnut Hill on April 25 and 26, was remarkably well-spoken - erudite even - for a guy who's been singing "Rock and Roll All Nite" for 35 years.

What's going on with KISS?

Stanley: "I'm on my way to rehearsal in about an hour. We'll be playing in Australia and New Zealand next month, and then we're doing a really large tour of Europe. Stadiums in Stockholm and Helsinki sold out in 20 minutes."

A band I thought was a cool novelty act way back when has managed to make quite a go of it.

Stanley: "What can I say? Sometimes beauty is in the ear of the beholder."

Tell me about the art? Who knew you even painted?

Stanley: "I actually started about eight years ago. I was getting divorced, and sometimes you reach a point in traumatic situations like that where you can scream and bang your head against the wall or do something else. Someone suggested I should paint. I didn't know what I was going to do, but I knew I wasn't going to depict reality."

Given the personality of the band, I figured your paintings would be full of girls. But they're actually tame.

Stanley: "They're somewhere between abstract and abstract expressionism. As far as I'm concerned, there are no rules in art. The only boundaries are the edge of the canvas."

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